Here we go with another weeks worth of links! Enjoy 🙂
JavaFX
- Danno Ferrin has released 0.1.0 of the JavaFX Gradle plugin. This release includes improved Scenic View support.
- Gerrit Grunwald has begun hacking on controls for JavaFX 8.0 (based on the in-development APIs available in the developer preview). You can see his work in his Enzo project.
- Speaking of custom controls, Hendrik Ebbers has put up part three of his ‘Custom UI Controls with JavaFX‘ tutorial.
- Dierk König has posted a good tutorial to help people new to JavaFX learn the basics.
- Speaking of Dierk, he has also posted a YouTube video that demonstrates the OpenDolphin portfolio demo application.
- Marco Jakob has two blog posts this week. Firstly, he has posted about slight improvements he has made to a DatePicker control (originally built by Christian Schudt). Secondly, he highlights the very useful snapshot feature of JavaFX to take screenshots of a running application.
- The Java Source blog has posted three video interviews with Jim Weaver, Gerrit Grunwald, and Martin Gunnarsson / Pär Sikö.
- Pedro Duque Vieira has added CSS styling for the JavaFX ComboBox and ToggleButton controls as part of his JMetro project.
- The TiwulFX blog has posted on how to provide different colours to CSS charts.
- Anton Epple has a long post about writing a tile engine in JavaFX.
- Andy Till continues to improve his EstiMate software estimation tool.
- Leon Atherton has blogged about setting AffineTransform and Font in JavaFX and FXML.
- Thierry Wasyl has shown the text tool he has added to his DrawFX application
- Steven Schwenke has posted about creating hover panes in JavaFX applications for context-specific actions.
- Robert Ladstätter has a number of posts that may be of interest to readers, including ‘Scala JavaFX Archetype‘, ‘Testing with JemmyFX, JavaFX and ScalaTest‘, ‘A sine wave with JavaFX and Scala‘, ‘2D Water Effects with JavaFX and Scala‘, ‘Lets go green and plant some trees‘ and ‘JavaFX Tree Visualization Part 2‘.
JavaFX and Raspberry Pi
- José Pereda has posted about NXTBeeFX: “A JavaFX based app for Raspberry Pi to control a Lego NXT robot wirelessly”.
Catch you all next week!
hi, a while back you made a call to fill the survey about javafx and mobility.
would you mind sharing the result.
and would oracle mind tell us a bit about their strategy, or at least a date at which they will be able to speak about it.
I searched on google with ‘javafx mobile’ and I found a post from somebody that was saying he was sorry but he could not talk about it. and the post was from 9 months ago. and it talked about javafx mobile demos the guy had done at the previous oracle world.
another post from somebody after last oracle world said that some insiding information he had let him to believe that oracle was afraid that allowing javafx on android and ios would eat up its revenues on other products (which ones?).
and allegedly, in one other presentation from last oracle world as well, when asked the question about the strategy, the oracle speaker said there was an upcoming release of adf mobile.
if oracle wants to keep its strategy secret, then so far it has been a success, because it sounds that nobody has a clue.
I know people doing consulting projects, and the best multiplatform mobile stack is flex at the moment. and there are almost no competitors, at least if you do not want to get into html5 and a mix of javascript libraries. but flex is not easy to sell anymore, and they would be killing for an integrated, unified, mature and modern multiplatform stack.
javafx has been able to get some traction, but still so little compared to competitors, that it can be hardly considered a success. this might change when several hundred thousand javafx applications get deployed into app stores.
may be at some point when somebody asks: what is the best quality, most productive, and cheapest solution to deploy my app on all devices ; would we be able to answer: ‘javafx’ of course.
but that is certainly not the case today.
I just can’t believe oracle does not want to get into that space.
any insight is welcome.
cheers,
vince
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